Ingrid Bergman has said in interviews that she and her co star Humphrey Bogart were not friends and actually he never spoke to her at all during filming. She didn't say he was being mean or deliberately unfriendly, but she said that he came on set, said his lines in the scene, then went back to his dressing room. She said they didn't become friends even though she wanted to, he remained detached and formal, fulfilling his professional obligation to act in the movie, and nothing more than that. The only time he engaged with her was when speaking the lines in the scenes. Before shooting began she had sent him a note suggesting they meet for dinner and get to know each other , not a romantic dinner date, just two actors making friends before shooting a movie together , but he had declined the invitation. I think that disappointed her, she never criticised Bogart, she was way to classy a woman for that, but I think she was a little bit hurt that he had no interest in having an informal friendly rapport and chose to remain totally formal and detached during shooting.
@@billhill839Oh I don't think any of the stars of Casablanca had tell that commentator personally anything about Bogie and how he was on set during the production of many films he was in. It is well known Bogart was a man's man. Between scenes he was not particularly chatty, didn't really hang around the woman but would have a great time smoking his head off and drinking with the directors and film guys. Furthermore, he didn't like European women he was ALL American. It's also well known that Ingrid Bergman was not his cup of tea at all, although she did have the hots for him. Ingrid tended to become emotionally attached to her male co-stars, many of which she went to bed with. Now I must correct myself to some extent, when I say a fact is well known, I'm referring to those people who like to read books, biographies and even autobiographies on our famous favourite stars.
"On August 21, 1938, Bogart entered a turbulent third marriage to actress Mayo Methot, a lively, friendly woman when sober but paranoid and aggressive when drunk. She became convinced that Bogart was unfaithful to her, which he eventually was with Lauren Bacall." from Wikipedia. In 1942, he was probably still trying to hold onto his marriage and avoid any kind of Hollywood rumours.
The directors name was NOT Curtis (As in Tony Curtis) But CURTIZ Pronounce Curtize with the emphasis on the "iz"making it sound like Curtizeeeeez Also the "Deleted scene" mentioned in the title is shown as tiny snippets, repeated again and again, lasting perhaps a few seconds near the end of the vlog.....so if your waiting to see that your going to be disappointed! This is an interesting post, but it does fail to show what the title promotes.
All youse quibbling about the pronunciation of the director's name are barking up the wrong tree. Acc to IMDB, he was born 1886 in Budapest, at the time part of the Austro=Hungarian Habsburg Empire. As such, his name would be pronounced Kour-titz (german) or more like Kour-tish (hungarian). and while we are at it, since he wasn[t born American, Michael should be pronounced as they do in Germany, 'Mee-khah-el'. Friends called him Mischa anyway. Go away now.
@@shelbynamels973 Lol..my German mom called Michael ...My Kell. I am glad that she emigrated to NYC or else I would have been born in Munich under Nazi rule.
Black and white films are very atmospheric, Thank God ‘’The Train’’ made in 1964 was in black & white and not in colour, it has a documentary feel about it.
Bots are very stubborn and hard-headed. They love to mispronounce words, and will even mispronounce the name of the celebrity that is the subject of a video. Frankly, I would prefer YT ban mechanical narrators.
I would say the reason for the cuts made to the German 1952 release had prolly to do with the country's ban on all Nazi images, symbols, and other references, which exists to this day. WB prolly decided to be in strict adherence and not have any controversy that could have hurt the movie's box office. and since they never mentioned the war, the rest of the changes became a matter of story telling necessity.
Confusion abounds, even when the language is common. Friends of the family from Ireland shacked us when he said, "When I was a kid, it was my job to go knock up all the single ladies in town. An American exchange teacher kind of freaked out when one of his 3rd grade students asked to use his rubber.
I just watched this, and it was MUCH more than just a "deleted scene," this video was perhaps the best one I've yet seen on the behind the scenes workings of one of the best movies in Hollywood history. THANK YOU!!
You forgot to mention that Casablanca was a _B_ film, meant to seen as the second part of a double feature. As a result, it had limited music, which was common for _B_ features to save money. This showed that you didn't need to have music in every seen of a film like the main feature did to be a success, and Hollywood took notice, helping producers to save on music score budgets.
Not necessarilty. I Believe the best film of all time was the 1935 (time period) "Scarlett Pimpernel" with Leslie HOward. But Casablanca certainly is in MY top three picks. Thing is, if you carefully examine films you will find a lot of absolutely top rate movies--ones I cannot decide if they ALL are in the top three--that's about 50 movies I would put in the top three category--LOL
@@dikhed1639 Just the cast alone makes it the all-time best. Bogie, Ingrid Bergman, Sidney Greenstreet, Claude Raines, Paul Henreid alone tops the list. Then the cinematography is magical - never ever losing it genius. What comes close? Lawrence of Arabia.
@@skykingimagery899 Lawrence of Arabia is one of those fako movies that builds up a REAL person into a god. If Laurence had been around to see the movie he would have puked. There are several movies that are in the top three (i mean about 10 to 50) but my view of the top single movie of all time is The Scarlet Pimpernel 1935 with Leslie Howard.
126 pages is not "too long" for a movie script: this is the paradigmatic length for a script, and has been for sixty or eighty years. I've always been aware of the number because that was my telephone number in plugboard days when the film came out and it's been the number of pages in very many of the scripts I've seen or read. I.e., the author of this screed knows nothing about anything and is just making stuff up as he staggers along.
Really? He is how the story would have ended if Warner Bros had kept not only the original title but also the original story line! The story would then end with Richard Yitzah Baline(Richard Blaine's real name as he was a New York Jewish crime mob enforcer from Brooklyn who fled New York with Sam after having killed Italian mobsters in self-defense) allowing the Laslows to escape, then killing Major Strasser, being arrested by Captain Freneau, having Captain Freneau turn him over to the Germans who then executed him as a resistant and a Jew! Is that how you would want the story to end or the positive way that it did end?
@@GeorgeFrei-g4l Chill! Mritalicsmine posed a simple QUESTION for your consideration. I appreciate your sharing the original story, but there's no need for hostility. The comment doesn't even say the original title should have been kept, and doesn't mention the content at all.
ALL? seriously? This is very informative video full of many accurate and CREDIBLE details, yet ONE goof flips your brain to the off position? Lighten up.
@@JuliusKing-u3t Really? So according to you he should have been trained as a special operations officer and tried to save his family as others did! How would he be helping them if he had been possibly been captured, tortured for being not only a resistant but also gay and then sent to a death camp where he would be put into a crematory oven alive and burned to death as the SS did to prominent resistants, gays and lesbians! By making Casablanca he showed the ENTIRE WORLD that was capable of seeing the film what the German Nazis, Italian Fascists and Japanese Militarists were like and encouraged them to resist and fight on to victory! It is easy for people like you to make judgements from the safety of 21st century America where you have rights and are not living under a dictatorship even though the media would like you to believe that the Biden Administration was a Communist Dictatorship and that the Trump Administration is a Nazi Dictatorship! Wake up and stand up yourself!
I knew a guy with enough clout to borrow movies out of studio vaults. The older version of Casablanca he showed me in 1967 had a very clear scene with the Bulgarian girl coming to ask for help, and Claude Rains making it very clear it would cost the girl some special favors. This scene is cut out in modern showings, but it is why even today we see the scene where she desperately goes to Bogart to ask him about doing special favors to help her husband, and whether she could be forgiven, and can the so-and-so be trusted to keep his promises. Bogart then goes into the casino to tell the croupier to toss Bogart's money into the Bulgarian husband's lap to save the wife from selling herself. When the movie was initially sold around town, the big boys asked Ronald Reagan to play the role of Rick. Fortunately for history, Reagan let it slide to Bogart and had to make do with merely pursuing politics.
This was great!, I was in filmaking in the 80's. Filmaking is chaotic, and what its about morphs into something else by the time your done with it. And yet, this movie i held up as the pinnacle of filmmaking, before i know anything about filmmaking. The lack of professionalism in the 80's, the drugs, made me leave the bissness. No regrets, 20 years of cheffing and 20 years of butchery. The only good ive been able to achieve is feeding hungry people good, healthy food. Blessings to all.
At 42, Bogart thought he was too old, and not handsome enough to play a romantic lead. When he was 44, he didn't think he was too old to romance a19 year old girl.
I remember watching the colorized version of Topper. ONCE! There was a carnation in George's (Cary Grant) lapel that kept changing color between red in the closeup and wight in the longer shots. Once it caught my eye, it became a distraction throughout the rest of the movie.
I saw the German version which is still extant there. It is a completely different movie, altered almost beyond recognition. Can't believe Warners allowed that. Same goes for that colorized version. 😣
It's more like 25min 55sec but no less out of context. And then there's the odd "Rick's Bar," straight out of New Orleans, Key West, or wherever at 28:05. And a bit later, a still with Bogart and Mary Astor from "The Maltese Falcon." Who knows who ultimately puts these videos together and what they know or don't know of film history -or of any history at all. But the video provides one of several fascinating accounts of the fascinating story of a fascinating film.
You say the script was received the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, then later you state Breen sent a letter to the studio on 3 Dec 1941 detailing changes he wanted made - 5 days before they had the script.
So David Niven stole his "Bring on the empty horses" from Curtiz? Get outa here. These piffling videos stuffed with clips from unrelated movies are devoid of any value.
Incredible that so much trouble and expense was used to butcher "Casablanca" for German audiences. Better to have accepted that the film wouldn't be released in Germany, than to alter it to that degree.
I thought that this was going to be about a scene deleted from Casablanca as obviously suggested by the title. Instead it was about scenes deleted from the German version of Casablanca, hardly surprising and not particularly interesting. Plus we have to wait through 20 minutes of old news before we get to this
Turner colorized a bunch of classic movies. I remember Jimmy Stewart complaining that they didn't care about the colors of their clothes and as a result they used unpopular or ugly color combinations, like pink ties.
I'll never learn. These RUclips videos have a hook in the title but the subject is not even broached 20 or 30 minutes when all the background is covered and then often only touched on. I'm also tired of the editing in of random clps to match the narrative. From wherever on the timeline. I don't know if these authors just churn out content to get likes and subscriptions but it all seems a little contrived. I will have to admit though that this one is a little more informative than most.
I was enjoying this until 19:21 when the narrator was discussing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's screening of the movie at the White House when a picture of Theodore Roosevelt suddenly appeared. I hit the pause and said wtf?!! I appreciate the effort but I can't finish this doc knowing that the person who put this together doesn't recognize the difference between Theodore Roosevelt (The 26th President of the United States) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (The 32nd President of the United States and 5th Cousin of Theodore Roosevelt). If you got this wrong, what other details are wrong?
With the exception of the many, many mispronunciations, this is interesting. I believe the cocktail served to the German officer was known as a French 75. A Kamikazi shot is an entirely different drink....tasty and dangerous...where I vaguely remember celebrating someone's birthday in a fancy bar in the Wan Chai District of old Hong Kong.
They were very prudish but actually the rules resulted in more subtle timeless classics. For example I think the external (and internalised) boundaries on Hitchcock produced much better movies than at the end of his career with more freedom for explicit material.
Am I imagining it, or in one clip did I see Bogart talking to Mary Astor in a scene from the Maltese Falcon? It appears around 29.12. Oh well, I like both pictures.
I have a copy of EVERYBODY COMES TO RICK’S. Heck, I think it’s on Scribd. Lois/Ilsa leaves with Victor. The play is about 80% congruent with the movie. If there were multiple endings, it would be because the studio or Curtiz decided to “improve” the original.
It came soooo close to being one of the top ten OAT. I've seen it about 2 dozen times (I'm 82) and I still have a strong negative reaction to the split up of Rick/Ilsha. The argument given by Rick doesn't make sense on many levels. 1st. Rick isn't a politically active do-gooder. He is self-centered, a realist, not a person likely to sacrifice his happiness for an ideal, e.g., like "MAGA". 2nd. Rick shows no respect for Ilsha's feelings, her wishes, instead has already made up his mind what she "must do". 3rd. Rick's justification for sacrificing his/her life's puts the enormous value on the life of a political speaker we have no direct evidence will make any difference. We only know he is an enemy of the Nazis. From this we are supposed to deduce that his happiness is more valuable than Rick/Ilsha so they should sacrifice for him, as if Rick knew that's what he would choose. Why? How does Rick know Ilsha might be so unhappy that she will make Victor's life miserable? He doesn't. 4th. How does sacrifice of individuals for the benefit of "the common good", the collective, make sense? That claim is a contradiction. How can everybody be better off by forced sacrifice of everybody to everybody? The collective is made up of a collection of individuals being sacrificed.
There's a scene in Casablanca, it's the first time we are shown Rick's Cafe Sasha the barman is pouring a drink for what looks like Sasha's identical twin, but Sasha is Russian and the lookalike speaks only one word ' Cheerio ' in what sounds like a posh English accent, and is not seen again in the film. Unless I've missed something there's no explanation to this ringer throughout the rest of the film and it's bugging me,. Please if someone can clear this up, I would be extremely grateful.
No, the guy is sitting on a stall at the bar and the barman Rick calls a crazy Russian is mixing a drink for him, what's confused me is he's the spitting image of Sasha, identical but there's no other reference to him in the film.
Interesting, no mention of the "Round up the usual suspects" by Captain Renault near the end of the film, when Rick has just shot and killed Major Strasser. I understood that was the hasty thought of way to conclude the situation.
Why keep showing a picture and name of Teddy Roosevelt, when Franklin was the president in 1942? Couldn't find any of FDR? Aside from that, pretty interesting...
$2.20 in 1942 would be $42.60 in 2025😪. I went to rock concerts on & before Monday, June 01, 1970 . That was "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young" for $5.00 (in 2025, now about $40.67). Thereafter, "Elvis & the Rolling stones" bumped the price up to $6.00 (in2025, about $48.80).
Yes, ,that is egregious. I thimpfk it was more likely to be 20c which would be twice the price of a regular movie. and if, as said in the video, this was nnot expected to be a great movie, just hollywood junk, it certainly would NOT have been even 20c.
@@GeorgeFrei-g4l I own the B & W versions on VHS,DVD & Blu Ray. I would like to see it in color. I'm on the wrong side of 70 but not a stodgy old type who condemns the generation raised on color for rather wanting to see their movies in color.
It was not just made IN black & white, it was made TO BE IN black & white. The colorized version is abhorrent, a travesty. It is poorly done, unconvincing and adds nothing. See this movie the way it was meant to be. Please.
@@FastEddy1959 "Colorized" seems to take the eye away from the actual movie. I have the Laurel & Hardy colourised versions & cannot watch them. The colours are not supposed to be there, they are not correct & it's too distracting.
Wrong Roosevelt. This is poorly written and poorly narrated. Too bad because it's based on a great film and has some interesting nuggets. But sorry. No more of this channel for me.
The sound track of this video is in dire need of a good editor. Endless repetition of the same facts, and often confusing chronology make it seem endless. An d that's not even to mention the idiotic mispronunciations of the names of many of the principals involved in the film -- Michael CURTIS? That said, some very interesting insights given, more or less in spite of the overall sloppiness.
Ilsa (not Elsa) is conflicted. She is in between two men she loves and doesn’t know who she will end the movie with. As the video makes clear, Bergman doesn’t know the outcome as it wasn’t determined until the last day of shooting. No wonder she is very tentative. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
The phrase, `state of the art´, should always be prefaced by; `what for the time was´. Anything that is of cultural relevance will always find some egomaniac trying to make the art all about how they feel it should be seen. Ted Turner, government propagandists, government morality police there is a long list of creeps in the thought control business.
Ingrid Bergman has said in interviews that she and her co star Humphrey Bogart were not friends and actually he never spoke to her at all during filming. She didn't say he was being mean or deliberately unfriendly, but she said that he came on set, said his lines in the scene, then went back to his dressing room. She said they didn't become friends even though she wanted to, he remained detached and formal, fulfilling his professional obligation to act in the movie, and nothing more than that. The only time he engaged with her was when speaking the lines in the scenes. Before shooting began she had sent him a note suggesting they meet for dinner and get to know each other , not a romantic dinner date, just two actors making friends before shooting a movie together , but he had declined the invitation. I think that disappointed her, she never criticised Bogart, she was way to classy a woman for that, but I think she was a little bit hurt that he had no interest in having an informal friendly rapport and chose to remain totally formal and detached during shooting.
Did she tell you this personally?
@@billhill839 He wrote "in interviews" in the first line he wrote.
@@billhill839Oh I don't think any of the stars of Casablanca had tell that commentator personally anything about Bogie and how he was on set during the production of many films he was in. It is well known Bogart was a man's man. Between scenes he was not particularly chatty, didn't really hang around the woman but would have a great time smoking his head off and drinking with the directors and film guys. Furthermore, he didn't like European women he was ALL American. It's also well known that Ingrid Bergman was not his cup of tea at all, although she did have the hots for him. Ingrid tended to become emotionally attached to her male co-stars, many of which she went to bed with.
Now I must correct myself to some extent, when I say a fact is well known, I'm referring to those people who like to read books, biographies and even autobiographies on our famous favourite stars.
I've always thought Bogie was miscast. A woman who married Laszlo would not be open to loving a Bogart type. They didn't have chemistry.
"On August 21, 1938, Bogart entered a turbulent third marriage to actress Mayo Methot, a lively, friendly woman when sober but paranoid and aggressive when drunk. She became convinced that Bogart was unfaithful to her, which he eventually was with Lauren Bacall." from Wikipedia.
In 1942, he was probably still trying to hold onto his marriage and avoid any kind of Hollywood rumours.
This has some muddled images including a poster of Theodor (Teddy) Roosevelt, Franklin D. Would have been more appropriate.
That would involve some picture research. We can't have that.
notice the NY Times front page, from 1973 Earth Day.
duh
@@shelbynamels973 Hard to miss!
The robotic narration doesn't help.
The directors name was NOT Curtis (As in Tony Curtis) But CURTIZ Pronounce Curtize with the emphasis on the "iz"making it sound like Curtizeeeeez Also the "Deleted scene" mentioned in the title is shown as tiny snippets, repeated again and again, lasting perhaps a few seconds near the end of the vlog.....so if your waiting to see that your going to be disappointed! This is an interesting post, but it does fail to show what the title promotes.
All youse quibbling about the pronunciation of the director's name are barking up the wrong tree. Acc to IMDB, he was born 1886 in Budapest, at the time part of the Austro=Hungarian Habsburg Empire. As such, his name would be pronounced Kour-titz (german) or more like Kour-tish (hungarian).
and while we are at it, since he wasn[t born American, Michael should be pronounced as they do in Germany, 'Mee-khah-el'. Friends called him Mischa anyway.
Go away now.
@@shelbynamels973 Lol..my German mom called Michael ...My Kell.
I am glad that she emigrated to NYC or else I would have been born in Munich under Nazi rule.
So the deleted scene lasts 31 minutes? Next time just show the damn scene we all know about the movie! Didn't even waste my time watching this one!
Ask for the price of admission back. lol
@@Lalaland-q2z But, it was free
Just can't help rubbing our noses in how cleaver he is and how much he knows
Black and white films are very atmospheric, Thank God ‘’The Train’’ made in 1964 was in black & white and not in colour, it has a documentary feel about it.
Can you imagine the devastation that colorizing The Third Man would have caused especially the scene where Harry Lime first shows up.
You're another one needing to be told Michael Curtiz's name is not said as CURtis, it's CurTEEZ.
Bots are very stubborn and hard-headed. They love to mispronounce words, and will even mispronounce the name of the celebrity that is the subject of a video. Frankly, I would prefer YT ban mechanical narrators.
I would say the reason for the cuts made to the German 1952 release had prolly to do with the country's ban on all Nazi images, symbols, and other references, which exists to this day. WB prolly decided to be in strict adherence and not have any controversy that could have hurt the movie's box office.
and since they never mentioned the war, the rest of the changes became a matter of story telling necessity.
probably
@@rednelob9951 Gerraway! I dunno what you mean? ps. Which war was it they never mentioned?
Don't say prolly
Confusion abounds, even when the language is common. Friends of the family from Ireland shacked us when he said, "When I was a kid, it was my job to go knock up all the single ladies in town.
An American exchange teacher kind of freaked out when one of his 3rd grade students asked to use his rubber.
Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) meeting with Churchill in Casablanca was in 1942. Theodore Roosevelt (on the Book cover) died 23 years earlier in 1919..
There are also several shots from the Bogart film "Tokyo Joe". Weird.
Ingrid Bergman the most beautfull movie star of all time.
If you say so, Dork.
@@lewisc215 Are you gay?
Beauty is subjective. Many people think Melania tRump and Kristi Gnoem are attractive. I would wholeheartedly disagree.
Melania is a pretty empty human shell, bought by a pompous fascist
You’re nuts.
I just watched this, and it was MUCH more than just a "deleted scene," this video was perhaps the best one I've yet seen on the behind the scenes workings of one of the best movies in Hollywood history. THANK YOU!!
Thank you, this video adds to my appreciation for this great movie. 👍👍
Whatever they changed - it turned out perfect!
What makes Casablanca so memorable is some of its lines. Simple, but they strike a chord.
You forgot to mention that Casablanca was a _B_ film, meant to seen as the second part of a double feature. As a result, it had limited music, which was common for _B_ features to save money. This showed that you didn't need to have music in every seen of a film like the main feature did to be a success, and Hollywood took notice, helping producers to save on music score budgets.
But" As Time Goes By" is all it required !
All this confusion made the film even better. The tension was real. Unquestionably, Casablanca is the greatest film of all time.
Not necessarilty. I Believe the best film of all time was the 1935 (time period) "Scarlett Pimpernel" with Leslie HOward. But Casablanca certainly is in MY top three picks. Thing is, if you carefully examine films you will find a lot of absolutely top rate movies--ones I cannot decide if they ALL are in the top three--that's about 50 movies I would put in the top three category--LOL
@@dikhed1639 Just the cast alone makes it the all-time best. Bogie, Ingrid Bergman, Sidney Greenstreet, Claude Raines, Paul Henreid alone tops the list. Then the cinematography is magical - never ever losing it genius. What comes close? Lawrence of Arabia.
@@skykingimagery899 Lawrence of Arabia is one of those fako movies that builds up a REAL person into a god. If Laurence had been around to see the movie he would have puked. There are several movies that are in the top three (i mean about 10 to 50) but my view of the top single movie of all time is The Scarlet Pimpernel 1935 with Leslie Howard.
$50k in 1942 is $990k today! Good on you, Mr. Bogart!!
Curtiz was a genius, for keeping the cast in doubt about the story, to magnify the uncertainty of life in wartime.
126 pages is not "too long" for a movie script: this is the paradigmatic length for a script, and has been for sixty or eighty years. I've always been aware of the number because that was my telephone number in plugboard days when the film came out and it's been the number of pages in very many of the scripts I've seen or read.
I.e., the author of this screed knows nothing about anything and is just making stuff up as he staggers along.
Would it be quite so remarkable if they kept the original title: Everyone Comes To Rick's?
Really? He is how the story would have ended if Warner Bros had kept not only the original title but also the original story line! The story would then end with Richard Yitzah Baline(Richard Blaine's real name as he was a New York Jewish crime mob enforcer from Brooklyn who fled New York with Sam after having killed Italian mobsters in self-defense) allowing the Laslows to escape, then killing Major Strasser, being arrested by Captain Freneau, having Captain Freneau turn him over to the Germans who then executed him as a resistant and a Jew! Is that how you would want the story to end or the positive way that it did end?
@@GeorgeFrei-g4l Chill! Mritalicsmine posed a simple QUESTION for your consideration. I appreciate your sharing the original story, but there's no need for hostility. The comment doesn't even say the original title should have been kept, and doesn't mention the content at all.
24:00, picture of nazis saluting a book burning. I appreciate your hard work in this video, all the details really add up.
"Kamikaze cocktail"? By 1945 maybe we knew it as that, but not in 1941.
Mix up Teddy Roosevelt with FDR? You just lost all credibility.
ALL? seriously? This is very informative video full of many accurate and CREDIBLE details, yet ONE goof flips your brain to the off position? Lighten up.
Just imagine if Ken Burns made an egregious mistake like that. Maybe you're too forgiving.
@@robertwiegand49 OMG, you mention ken burns--the sukky shiXXy writer of krap? HIs garbage is ALL EGREGIOUS mistakes
I found these details of one my favorite old movie very interesting.
Michael Curtiz family was being slaughtered in Europe while he was shooting this film 🎥
@@JuliusKing-u3t Really? So according to you he should have been trained as a special operations officer and tried to save his family as others did! How would he be helping them if he had been possibly been captured, tortured for being not only a resistant but also gay and then sent to a death camp where he would be put into a crematory oven alive and burned to death as the SS did to prominent resistants, gays and lesbians! By making Casablanca he showed the ENTIRE WORLD that was capable of seeing the film what the German Nazis, Italian Fascists and Japanese Militarists were like and encouraged them to resist and fight on to victory! It is easy for people like you to make judgements from the safety of 21st century America where you have rights and are not living under a dictatorship even though the media would like you to believe that the Biden Administration was a Communist Dictatorship and that the Trump Administration is a Nazi Dictatorship! Wake up and stand up yourself!
@@GeorgeFrei-g4l It was supposed to be a sarcastic reply to what looked like an idiotic reproach.
I knew a guy with enough clout to borrow movies out of studio vaults. The older version of Casablanca he showed me in 1967 had a very clear scene with the Bulgarian girl coming to ask for help, and Claude Rains making it very clear it would cost the girl some special favors. This scene is cut out in modern showings, but it is why even today we see the scene where she desperately goes to Bogart to ask him about doing special favors to help her husband, and whether she could be forgiven, and can the so-and-so be trusted to keep his promises. Bogart then goes into the casino to tell the croupier to toss Bogart's money into the Bulgarian husband's lap to save the wife from selling herself. When the movie was initially sold around town, the big boys asked Ronald Reagan to play the role of Rick. Fortunately for history, Reagan let it slide to Bogart and had to make do with merely pursuing politics.
Just goes to show that a shitty actor would have ruined that great film.
@@dikhed1639 And it goes to show we didn't have to depend on Jimmy Carter to finish off the Soviet Union.
That scene is in all the tv showings I remember. But laterly I just watch it on the internet.
@ There is a light touch scene remaining, but the one I am referring to is decidedly heavier duty.
Great study. Why the inexplicable shot of Theodore Roosevelt while discussing the Casablanca meeting?
It was the greatest movie ever made.
This was great!, I was in filmaking in the 80's. Filmaking is chaotic, and what its about morphs into something else by the time your done with it. And yet, this movie i held up as the pinnacle of filmmaking, before i know anything about filmmaking.
The lack of professionalism in the 80's, the drugs, made me leave the bissness. No regrets, 20 years of cheffing and 20 years of butchery. The only good ive been able to achieve is feeding hungry people good, healthy food.
Blessings to all.
At 42, Bogart thought he was too old, and not handsome enough to play a romantic lead. When he was 44, he didn't think he was too old to romance a19 year old girl.
off topic
2 adults. Shouldn't be a problem, & to Lauren Bacall it wasn't.
She lied about her age...
well, he wasn't.
The Italian version was also changed . Rick exported guns to China and not Ethiopia.
the absolute biggest outrage was Turner's colorization abomination.
They should have done a black and white version of " Gone with the Wind". It would probably have been better.
I'm not outraged.
@@michaelstearnes1526 Reckon it's about time I got rid of my monochrome TV and invested in a new-fangled colour version.
You showed the wrong Roosevelt. You showed Theodore not Franklin.
That book cover was a weird insert.
As was the final spelling out of "B-L-U-R-A-Y", like there were children present and it was a swear word.
Thank you for this video. As a lifelong fan of Bogart and "Casablanca," I found it very interesting and informative.
Why do you have a photo of Theodore Roosevelt when talking about FDR?
I remember watching the colorized version of Topper. ONCE! There was a carnation in George's (Cary Grant) lapel that kept changing color between red in the closeup and wight in the longer shots. Once it caught my eye, it became a distraction throughout the rest of the movie.
Hollywood with no wood.
I saw the German version which is still extant there. It is a completely different movie, altered almost beyond recognition. Can't believe Warners allowed that. Same goes for that colorized version. 😣
At about 21 min you have a clip with J.K.Simmons and Kate McKinnon. What's up with that??
It's more like 25min 55sec but no less out of context. And then there's the odd "Rick's Bar," straight out of New Orleans, Key West, or wherever at 28:05. And a bit later, a still with Bogart and Mary Astor from "The Maltese Falcon." Who knows who ultimately puts these videos together and what they know or don't know of film history -or of any history at all. But the video provides one of several fascinating accounts of the fascinating story of a fascinating film.
25:55 to be more precise. ?But good eye, I had to freeze frame it to catch the substitution. A sketch from SNL, I guess??
You say the script was received the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, then later you state Breen sent a letter to the studio on 3 Dec 1941 detailing changes he wanted made - 5 days before they had the script.
So David Niven stole his "Bring on the empty horses" from Curtiz? Get outa here. These piffling videos stuffed with clips from unrelated movies are devoid of any value.
Incredible that so much trouble and expense was used to butcher "Casablanca" for German audiences. Better to have accepted that the film wouldn't be released in Germany, than to alter it to that degree.
Why did they keep showing Theodore Roosevelt's picture?
FYI. THAT ISN'T FDR ON THE BOOK COVER.
I thought that this was going to be about a scene deleted from Casablanca as obviously suggested by the title. Instead it was about scenes deleted from the German version of Casablanca, hardly surprising and not particularly interesting. Plus we have to wait through 20 minutes of old news before we get to this
Turner colorized a bunch of classic movies. I remember Jimmy Stewart complaining that they didn't care about the colors of their clothes and as a result they used unpopular or ugly color combinations, like pink ties.
This Breen guy seems to be really stuck up. Maybe they didn't have Metamucil in those days LOL.
So many wrong pictures and incorrect information. A shame.
I'll never learn. These RUclips videos have a hook in the title but the subject is not even broached 20 or 30 minutes when all the background is covered and then often only touched on. I'm also tired of the editing in of random clps to match the narrative. From wherever on the timeline. I don't know if these authors just churn out content to get likes and subscriptions but it all seems a little contrived. I will have to admit though that this one is a little more informative than most.
At 11:05, they have a clip of Pia Lindstrom, Ingrid’s daughter.
I was enjoying this until 19:21 when the narrator was discussing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's screening of the movie at the White House when a picture of Theodore Roosevelt suddenly appeared. I hit the pause and said wtf?!! I appreciate the effort but I can't finish this doc knowing that the person who put this together doesn't recognize the difference between Theodore Roosevelt (The 26th President of the United States) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (The 32nd President of the United States and 5th Cousin of Theodore Roosevelt). If you got this wrong, what other details are wrong?
With the exception of the many, many mispronunciations, this is interesting. I believe the cocktail served to the German officer was known as a French 75. A Kamikazi shot is an entirely different drink....tasty and dangerous...where I vaguely remember celebrating someone's birthday in a fancy bar in the Wan Chai District of old Hong Kong.
I am disappointed not to see any of the deleted scenes no-one was supposed to see. Those scenes remain unseen.
Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
Thanks. I won't watch now.
19:24 Teddy Roosevelt for FDR?! haha! so many mistakes, both content and video. get your act together.
Please use human narrators
The censor was prudish -- did he make US audiences prudish, or was he following the culture of the time?
They were very prudish but actually the rules resulted in more subtle timeless classics. For example I think the external (and internalised) boundaries on Hitchcock produced much better movies than at the end of his career with more freedom for explicit material.
Am I imagining it, or in one clip did I see Bogart talking to Mary Astor in a scene from the Maltese Falcon? It appears around 29.12. Oh well, I like both pictures.
Yes, a snippet of Bogart and Astor.
Somebody doesn't know the difference between Franklin Roosevelt and Teddy Roosevelt.
Cary Grant's suit changed color when he moved from New York to the mid west. This wasn't intentional, but had something to do with the film stock.
Wait the premiere was in California and Bogart was in California why didn’t he attend premiere???
The vid said New York
Probably the most quoted film every made ... at least for my generation
'Bring on the empty people." Really? THAT sounds apocryphal
An international predator is our "new golden age?"
I have a copy of EVERYBODY COMES TO RICK’S. Heck, I think it’s on Scribd. Lois/Ilsa leaves with Victor. The play is about 80% congruent with the movie. If there were multiple endings, it would be because the studio or Curtiz decided to “improve” the original.
Why the picture of Teddy Roosevelt while talking about FDR?
It came soooo close to being one of the top ten OAT. I've seen it about 2 dozen times (I'm 82) and I still have a strong negative reaction to the split up of Rick/Ilsha. The argument given by Rick doesn't make sense on many levels. 1st. Rick isn't a politically active do-gooder. He is self-centered, a realist, not a person likely to sacrifice his happiness for an ideal, e.g., like "MAGA". 2nd. Rick shows no respect for Ilsha's feelings, her wishes, instead has already made up his mind what she "must do". 3rd. Rick's justification for sacrificing his/her life's puts the enormous value on the life of a political speaker we have no direct evidence will make any difference. We only know he is an enemy of the Nazis. From this we are supposed to deduce that his happiness is more valuable than Rick/Ilsha so they should sacrifice for him, as if Rick knew that's what he would choose. Why? How does Rick know Ilsha might be so unhappy that she will make Victor's life miserable? He doesn't. 4th. How does sacrifice of individuals for the benefit of "the common good", the collective, make sense? That claim is a contradiction. How can everybody be better off by forced sacrifice of everybody to everybody? The collective is made up of a collection of individuals being sacrificed.
I gave it 9 seconds then quit,GET TO THE EXPLETIVE POINT.
There's a scene in Casablanca, it's the first time we are shown Rick's Cafe Sasha the barman is pouring a drink for what looks like Sasha's identical twin, but Sasha is Russian and the lookalike speaks only one word ' Cheerio ' in what sounds like a posh English accent, and is not seen again in the film. Unless I've missed something there's no explanation to this ringer throughout the rest of the film and it's bugging me,. Please if someone can clear this up, I would be extremely grateful.
Is that the same guy who steals the wallet at the start?
No, the guy is sitting on a stall at the bar and the barman Rick calls a crazy Russian is mixing a drink for him, what's confused me is he's the spitting image of Sasha, identical but there's no other reference to him in the film.
I liked both the colorized and the Black and White.
Interesting, no mention of the "Round up the usual suspects" by Captain Renault near the end of the film, when Rick has just shot and killed Major Strasser. I understood that was the hasty thought of way to conclude the situation.
The late great Peter Ustinov would have enhanced this classic as he just about enhanced everything he ever done
Why keep showing a picture and name of Teddy Roosevelt, when Franklin was the president in 1942? Couldn't find any of FDR? Aside from that, pretty interesting...
$2.20 in 1942 would be $42.60 in 2025😪. I went to rock concerts on & before Monday, June 01, 1970 . That was "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young" for $5.00 (in 2025, now about $40.67). Thereafter, "Elvis & the Rolling stones" bumped the price up to $6.00 (in2025, about $48.80).
Yes, ,that is egregious. I thimpfk it was more likely to be 20c which would be twice the price of a regular movie. and if, as said in the video, this was nnot expected to be a great movie, just hollywood junk, it certainly would NOT have been even 20c.
What's with the ticking?
:why are you showing TEDDY Roosevelt at time stamp when you are talking about FRANKLIN Roosevelt
It would have been easier to just make a totally different movie surely. Don’t upset the nazis
Moronic
Nope.
Would buy the colorized version. Most nowadays would prefer it. I can't get people under 45 to watch the black and white anything.
Hmmm, all of those wonderful movies, especially those from the Pre-Code Era(1920-1934) and nobody wants to watch them...except many people like me!
@@GeorgeFrei-g4l I own the B & W versions on VHS,DVD & Blu Ray. I would like to see it in color. I'm on the wrong side of 70 but not a stodgy old type who condemns the generation raised on color for rather wanting to see their movies in color.
That’s their loss….
It was not just made IN black & white, it was made TO BE IN black & white. The colorized version is abhorrent, a travesty. It is poorly done, unconvincing and adds nothing. See this movie the way it was meant to be. Please.
@@FastEddy1959 "Colorized" seems to take the eye away from the actual movie. I have the Laurel & Hardy colourised versions & cannot watch them. The colours are not supposed to be there, they are not correct & it's too distracting.
"sophisticated hokum" indeed.
19:21 If you've seen one Roosevelt, you've seen them all.
Yeah, I saw the picture of Teddy while speaking about FDR, funny 😂
And congress is still time on stupid stuff.
Oh Well•••••
Because he was Hungarian the directors name Curtiz is pronounced Kur teez
Conrad Veidt’s name could use a better pronunciation, too.
Wrong Roosevelt. This is poorly written and poorly narrated. Too bad because it's based on a great film and has some interesting nuggets. But sorry. No more of this channel for me.
The sound track of this video is in dire need of a good editor. Endless repetition of the same facts, and often confusing chronology make it seem endless. An d that's not even to mention the idiotic mispronunciations of the names of many of the principals involved in the film -- Michael CURTIS? That said, some very interesting insights given, more or less in spite of the overall sloppiness.
Sorry, but I just don't see the "thing" about Casablanca. It was a boring movie that went nowhere.
LOL At 29.13 for no reason at all a shot from The Maltese Falcon is inserted.
ELsa in the movie comes of a little loosey Goosey.
What's 'Loosey Goosey'?
@tomryan914 it's what causes a UTI.
Ilsa (not Elsa) is conflicted. She is in between two men she loves and doesn’t know who she will end the movie with. As the video makes clear, Bergman doesn’t know the outcome as it wasn’t determined until the last day of shooting. No wonder she is very tentative.
Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
I can't believe gambling is going on here, simply shocking. I will pick up my winnings on the way out!
That Breen was really a tyrant.
The name of the director of "Casablanca" is pronounced ker-TEEZ, not "ker-tis!"
Why suddenly Teddy Roosevelt is showing up...!?
REALLY? REALLY? WRONG ROOSEVELT!!! TWICE! TWICE!
The rewrite is a mess, no wonder it’s long gone, hopefully never to return
Computer narration? Sounds like it. It's pronounced Cur-teez, not cur-tiss. Just one of many mispronunciations in this vid.
What was the point to view Teddy Roosevelt for FDR ?
No thumbs up because of the use of the colorized version.
Joseph Breen wonder what he would think of today morality!
Who cares?
Photo portraying USA military shows equipment from after 1990s,Itaq war era. Lazy video editing😢
Blue ray is now B L U E R A Y? [31:00]
The phrase, `state of the art´, should always be prefaced by; `what for the time was´. Anything that is of cultural relevance will always find some egomaniac trying to make the art all about how they feel it should be seen. Ted Turner, government propagandists, government morality police there is a long list of creeps in the thought control business.